{"id":578560,"date":"2026-04-01T12:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578560\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:57:47","slug":"why-luke-sayers-lewd-photo-scandal-exposes-the-melbourne-boys-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578560\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Luke Sayers\u2019 lewd photo scandal exposes the Melbourne boys\u2019 club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 1, 2026 \u2013 6.39pm<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the AFL\u2019s whodunit that most of the Melbourne establishment doesn\u2019t really want to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the 13 minutes a photograph of former Carlton president and PwC boss Luke Sayers\u2019 penis existed on his Twitter account on January 8 last year erupted again this week as fresh legal moves threatened to engulf the AFL and Melbourne\u2019s business and political elites \u2013 mostly on the Labor side of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 1, 2026 \u2013 6.39pm It\u2019s the AFL\u2019s whodunit that most of the Melbourne establishment doesn\u2019t really want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-578560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}